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National party campaign chair Chris Bishop says New Zealanders could return to the polls for a second election if it can't do a coalition deal with NZ First.

A $24m question mark hangs over lowering the bowel cancer screening age

Labour will up its attacks in the final three weeks of the New Zealand election, a contest which is centre-right National's to lose.

As Chris Hipkins and Christopher Luxon threw their weight about on the campaign trail, it was a terrible day for some of the small parties.

Creative NZ will be asked to reconsider its funding of Arts on Tour, which says it can’t keep taking shows to small centres on its present budget.

The severity of the problem of a commercially viable local media is obvious, but the discussion on what to do is lacking, with National and Act failing to even turn up to a debate this week, writes Mark Jennings

Maharashtra’s Aishwarya Jadhav sustained her brilliant form to upstage Suhitha Maruri of Karnataka and clinch the Under-18 girls’ singles title at the Fenesta Open National hard-court tennis championships in New Delhi on Saturday.

= = =Siddharth Vishwakarma and Shrivalli Bhamidipaty won the Fenesta National Tennis Championship at the DLTA Complex on Saturday. After a knee and shoulder injury, Siddharth asserted his class with a 4-6, 6-3, 6-4 victory over Karan Singh. Shrivalli dethroned defending champion Vaidehi Chaudhari in a thrilling 6-4, 4-6, 7-6(5)…

Out of the blue, Chris Hipkins and the governing party find some electoral love, faintly reminiscent of Jacindamania. Tim Murphy joined the throng.